PLEASED WITH A FEATHER

For the interesting point about a feather is really this, that it grew. It was not made in a moment, like a bullet poured red-hot into a mold: its little airy plumes, branched like a fern into tiny waving filaments, were developed by slow steps, piece after piece, and spikelet after spikelet. And what is true of this particular bit of down which I hold in my fingers, trembling like gossamer at every breath and every pulse, is also true of plumage as a whole in the history of animal evolution. 
Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen, 1879

The location of art should be within society, and art may consist of actions rather than objects.

not quite what she said, but what i believe. anyway, 'tis a good read. and great, meaning-ful work, i think.
Claudia Bernal - Performance as an act of survival

Stitches

Stitches

i do not expect to touch the sky...

Opening today, as part of International Women's day/month celebrations organised by Women's Arts Association. Butetown History and Art Museum, Cardiff Bay. 

An installation piece:

i do not expect to touch the sky...

hand made paper, reclaimed slate and wood, leaves, wire

A sculptural installation that began life as a stitched documentation of transient domestication; in a Women’s Arts Association digital workshop (2007) it developed into a digital story, which then became a short animated film that was a feature of an installation shown at Wunderland, (tactile BOSCH, Women’s Day 2011). 
It has merged with the ideas that were acted out as a performance in Bute Park (November 2011) to become what is now shown here.

The idea has travelled from its beginnings as a difficult to tell story of domestic violence to becoming a humorous take on the idea of the woman as 'bird' and high heels as a symbol of the 'woman'.

Heels may conjure up images of sex, dolling-up and wobbling girls, pervy men and women in control; pelvic pressure, engorged labia, twisted ankles, legs in the air.
Does wearing heels empower, sexualise, enhance, control, belittle or fetishise? Does the playfulness cover up the truth, under the makeup and heels?

We flit, we fly, we flee, but we make our way home again, to nest. 
But nests can be precarious.

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its been a while....


why? lack of inclination... lack of imagination... lack of tings to say of a creative nature...
all of the above.
the busiest times are the most interesting times. less time to say it. but more to say.


lots of education work going on. and some new personal work.


a proper posting will follow soon.


lets just say this:


' just as rain penetrates an ill roofed house, so desire penetrates an underdeveloped mind.'

Dhammapada v. 13-14

The word desire does not only refer to sexual desire, but in the context of the Buddha’s teachings, it has a much broader meaning. There are two major movements of our minds when the mind is not at peace: “I want” or “I don’t want”. This verses address the enormous category of all the things we want badly enough to unsettle our minds, to make us careless of others and forget what might be best for ourselves.

Word of the Day

Monday, September 19, 2011

slum·ber [sluhm-ber]

verb (used without object)

1. to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.

2. to be in a state of inactivity, negligence, quiescence, or calm: Vesuvius is slumbering.

 

verb (used with object)

3. to spend or pass (time) in slumbering (often followed by away, out, or through ): to slumber the afternoon away.

4. to dispel or forget by slumbering (often followed by away ): to slumber cares away.

Word of the Day

Sunday, September 18, 2011

 

care·tak·er (kârtkr)

n.

1. One that is employed to look after or take charge of goods, property, or a person; a custodian.

2. One that temporarily performs the duties of an office

 

*someone who is the recipient of care, rather than the giver.